Giorgio Bertanza

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
122 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Giorgio Bertanza is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Giorgio Bertanza has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 58 papers in Pollution and 47 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Giorgio Bertanza's work include Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (40 papers), Membrane Separation Technologies (34 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse (28 papers). Giorgio Bertanza is often cited by papers focused on Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (40 papers), Membrane Separation Technologies (34 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse (28 papers). Giorgio Bertanza collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Sweden and United States. Giorgio Bertanza's co-authors include Roberta Pedrazzani, Maria Cristina Collivignarelli, Alessandro Abbà, Marco Carnevale Miino, Matteo Canato, Paola Ricciardi, Carlo Collivignarelli, Matteo Papa, Giuseppe Laera and Donatella Feretti and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Giorgio Bertanza

119 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

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2020 456 citations Maria Cristina Collivignarelli, Alessandro Abbà et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Giorgio Bertanza Italy	32	1.1k	1.1k	1.1k	851	469	122	3.1k
Maria Cristina Collivignarelli Italy	28	816 0.7×	991 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	770 0.9×	466 1.0×	116	3.4k
Alessandro Abbà Italy	26	663 0.6×	805 0.8×	887 0.8×	672 0.8×	460 1.0×	88	3.0k
Lluís Corominas Spain	37	1.2k 1.1×	1.5k 1.4×	1.5k 1.4×	555 0.7×	382 0.8×	104	3.9k
Ali Akbar Babaei Iran	41	1.0k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.4×	1.3k 1.6×	234 0.5×	133	4.7k
Gholamreza Nabi Bidhendi Iran	33	1.4k 1.3×	547 0.5×	1.7k 1.6×	642 0.8×	140 0.3×	183	4.0k
Max Maurer Switzerland	35	1.1k 1.0×	2.2k 2.0×	1.5k 1.4×	426 0.5×	577 1.2×	92	4.9k
Diego Rosso United States	33	1.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	1.8k 1.7×	493 0.6×	133 0.3×	136	4.0k
Jing Ma China	35	2.4k 2.1×	500 0.5×	419 0.4×	926 1.1×	247 0.5×	227	4.8k
Luiza C. Campos United Kingdom	36	1.6k 1.5×	1.4k 1.4×	1.6k 1.5×	579 0.7×	174 0.4×	198	4.5k
Xiang Liu China	38	1.9k 1.7×	718 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	939 1.1×	112 0.2×	149	3.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giorgio Bertanza

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bertanza, Giorgio, et al.. (2025). Life Cycle Assessment of Industrial Symbiosis for Circular Solid Waste Management: A Literature Review. Clean Technologies. 7(4). 100–100. 1 indexed citations

Bertanza, Giorgio, et al.. (2025). Recovered Ammonia as a Sustainable Energy Carrier: Innovations in Recovery, Combustion, and Fuel Cells. Energies. 18(3). 508–508. 5 indexed citations

Marchionni, Matteo, Alessandro Abbà, Michele Mascia, et al.. (2023). Exploring the Viability of Utilizing Treated Wastewater as a Sustainable Water Resource for Green Hydrogen Generation Using Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells (SOECs). Water. 15(14). 2569–2569. 16 indexed citations

Abbà, Alessandro, et al.. (2023). Ammonia Recovery from Livestock Manure Digestate through an Air-Bubble Stripping Reactor: Evaluation of Performance and Energy Balance. Energies. 16(4). 1643–1643. 13 indexed citations

Pedrazzani, Roberta, Donatella Feretti, Giovanna Mazzoleni, et al.. (2023). Beyond the Black Box of Life Cycle Assessment in Wastewater Treatment Plants: Which Help from Bioassays?. Water. 15(5). 960–960. 1 indexed citations

Collivignarelli, Maria Cristina, et al.. (2023). Assessment of the Impact of a New Industrial Discharge on an Urban Wastewater Treatment Plant: Proposal for an Experimental Protocol. Environments. 10(7). 108–108. 4 indexed citations

Abbà, Alessandro, et al.. (2023). Investigation of the Main Parameters Influencing the Kinetics of an Ammonia Stripping Plant Treating Swine Digestate. Sustainability. 15(13). 10494–10494. 1 indexed citations

Collivignarelli, Maria Cristina, Roberta Pedrazzani, Marco Carnevale Miino, et al.. (2022). Numerical Analysis of a Full-Scale Thermophilic Biological System and Investigation of Nitrate and Ammonia Fates. Applied Sciences. 12(14). 6952–6952. 4 indexed citations

Bertanza, Giorgio, et al.. (2022). Evaluating the potential impact of energy-efficient ammonia control on the carbon footprint of a full-scale wastewater treatment plant. Water Science & Technology. 85(5). 1673–1687. 9 indexed citations

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Bertanza, Giorgio, et al.. (2022). Sewage Sludge Quality and Management for Circular Economy Opportunities in Lombardy. Applied Sciences. 12(20). 10391–10391. 23 indexed citations

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Pellegrinelli, Laura, Sara Castiglioni, Clementina Cocuzza, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of Pre-Analytical and Analytical Methods for Detecting SARS-CoV-2 in Municipal Wastewater Samples in Northern Italy. Water. 14(5). 833–833. 8 indexed citations

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Collivignarelli, Maria Cristina, Alessandro Abbà, Marco Carnevale Miino, et al.. (2021). Photoelectrocatalysis on TiO2 meshes: different applications in the integrated urban water management. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(42). 59452–59461. 18 indexed citations

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Collivignarelli, Maria Cristina, Carlo Collivignarelli, Marco Carnevale Miino, et al.. (2020). SARS-CoV-2 in sewer systems and connected facilities. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 143. 196–203. 79 indexed citations

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Collivignarelli, Maria Cristina, et al.. (2019). Drastic reduction of sludge in wastewater treatment plants: co-digestion of sewage sludge and aqueous waste in a thermophilic membrane reactor. Environmental Technology. 41(19). 2554–2563. 6 indexed citations

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Bertanza, Giorgio, et al.. (2019). Promoting biological phosphorus removal in a full scale pre-denitrification wastewater treatment plant. Journal of Environmental Management. 254. 109803–109803. 24 indexed citations

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Collivignarelli, Maria Cristina, Giorgio Bertanza, Alessandro Abbà, & Silvestro Damiani. (2018). Troubleshooting in a full-scale wastewater treatment plant: what can be learnt from tracer tests. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology. 16(7). 3455–3466. 8 indexed citations

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Pedrazzani, Roberta, Giorgio Bertanza, Ivan Brnardić, et al.. (2018). Opinion paper about organic trace pollutants in wastewater: Toxicity assessment in a European perspective. The Science of The Total Environment. 651(Pt 2). 3202–3221. 53 indexed citations

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Bertanza, Giorgio, et al.. (2017). A comparative techno-economic-environmental assessment of full-scale CAS vs MBR technologies. Chalmers Research (Chalmers University of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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Svanström, Magdalena, Giorgio Bertanza, David Bolzonella, et al.. (2013). Technical, economic and environmental benchmarking of advanced sludge processing routes. Chalmers Publication Library (Chalmers University of Technology). 4 indexed citations

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Papa, Matteo, Roberta Pedrazzani, & Giorgio Bertanza. (2013). How green are environmental technologies? A new approach for a global evaluation: The case of WWTP effluents ozonation. Water Research. 47(11). 3679–3687. 26 indexed citations

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